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Welcome to what I hope wiIl be an engaging and productive endeavor for our school community. I would like to invite you all to participate in this online Professional Learning Community to explore the approach our school can take to educate the 21st century learner.

Here is a video that may help explain what is meant by the 21st century learner and some implications for educators. @http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cL9Wu2kWwSY

To frame the discussion we will be relying heavily on a paper put forth by Henry Jenkins titled:

[|An occasional paper on digital media and learning] [|Confronting the Challenges of Participatory Culture: Media Education for the 21st Century]

Henry Jenkins, Director of the Comparative Media Studies Program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2006.

This will help focus our discussion and hopefully lead to a framework for teaching media literacy in our school. To read a summary of this paper click here . To read the full document click here.

Hopefully this document peaked your interest and left you yearning to delve deeper into the issues of Media Literacy for the 21st Century Learner. If so climb aboard to the next stage of the process.